Video: Saudi newscaster unloads on Wahhabist patriarchy

posted at 9:01 am on April 11, 2007 by Allahpundit

MEMRI casts a wide net but clips of Muslim women going off on the benighted Islamist morons they have to live under are its hallmark. This time it’s Buthayna Nasser, a Saudi newscaster, doing her best Wafa Sultan impression while a Saudi cleric squirms. I like the cross-cutting between him talking about the “temptation” unleashed by glimpses of a woman’s neck and the Lebanese moderator, done up to the nines in vintage painted-infidel-whore fashion.

Think of this as sort of the Wahhabist version of “Anchorman.” Click the image to watch.

A very brave lady indeed. If she needs to seek asylum I hope the US finds space for her. In fact, I would support asylum for any professional woman from an Islamist nation who fears for her life because she rejects their insane dress codes. Let’s see how fanatical their men our when they can’t go home at night and beat their wives for Allah.

Brave and on the right path,but the fact that she still looks upon the Koran as a source of her “way” is proof that the brainwashing runs deep.Using it as a path to knowledge and enlightnement is a doomed journey IMHO.

How hard will the Dems and Amnesty International howl about the coming ill-treatment of this woman?
More likely they call her a right wing fanatic and tool of the Bushilter.
Even if she’s Muslim and on the other side of the world.
….but…does…not….compute….brain…..overloading…..
Maybe the N.O.W. could do something out of character and say something nice about her. You know for standing up for womens
rights and all.
Naaah….never gonna happen.

This all sounds so familiar if you look at Medieval Christian history – Islam is truly 600 years behind. Wish we could FF them into their Reformation. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is sooooo right.

tickleddragon on April 11, 2007 at 9:49 AM

Please, let’s not even try to compare the abhorent way Islam looks at women to anything in the Church’s history! Although the way the Church has been run in the past is not perfect, at least our founding document, the Bible, does not advocate the subjugation and torture of women! In fact, a study of the New Testament shows a great liberation of women and highlights their role in the Body of Christ as equals to men.

Be careful what you wish for. They’re in their Reformation now. Look at the world 30 years ago versus now. There’s more sharia now, more Islamism now, more radicals now. And it’s all based on a literal reading of the Koran that wasn’t as prevalent a few decades ago.

Religious reformations aren’t about modernizing or getting along with others. That’s a secularist misunderstanding of what religious reformations are about. Reformations are about getting a faith back to its roots, bringing the weak of that faith back to the roots and spreading that “authentic” version of the faith. In Christianity’s case, the Reformation eventually brought about more freedom because the doctrines of faith and grace came to be seen as superior to earning one’s way to heaven through good works, and the papacy’s authority took a big hit. That’s shorthand for several centuries of history, but basically true.

In Islam’s case, the Reformation is based mostly on the Koran’s second half–written when Mohammed was spreading Islam by the sword. And that’s what we’re seeing and fighting against now, from Afghanistan to Pakistan to Thailand to Sudan to Europe. From the Sunni side, the Wahhabis are driving it. From the Shia side, the Iranians are driving it. Both represent Islamic Reformations.

So what is it lefties? Feminism or Multiculturalism? You can only pick one.

This is a brave brave woman. We are going to need many more just like her. I always admire people who’s moral compass becomes a more powerful influence then their backwards culture. I always wonder, had I been born in Afghanistan would that culture have turned me into a jihadist natzi or would I have been able to see it for what it is? I would like to think I could be like this woman.

Tickledragon, I would suggest to you that Christian women in medieval times were fairly well-treated and esteemed. They didn’t have the freedom afforded to women today, but relatively speaking, medieval Christan women were freer and held in higher regard than Muslim women today.

I know this question sounds racist but I’ll ask anyway: are Muslim men REALLY that unable to control their urges?

I only ask because its what THEY claim of themselves. Is it true? If a Muslim man actually sees a woman’s neck, he transforms into a rabid rapist? All of them?

Shouldn’t they be offended by that characterization? And yet they seem so proud of it. If that claim is true (and I hear it repeated every day – that it’s all about the temptation of female flesh), then isn’t the whole thing a question of maturity and self-control?

More to the point: why are we not using this information? If Muslim men are really as universally weak-willed as they claim, air dropping bundles of Playboy magazine over the Sunni triangle would end the insurgency in about five minutes.

I know this question sounds racist but I’ll ask anyway: are Muslim men REALLY that unable to control their urges?

I only ask because its what THEY claim of themselves. Is it true? If a Muslim man actually sees a woman’s neck, he transforms into a rabid rapist? All of them?

If true, rather than force the female population into black hefty bags, shouldn’t the male population wear blindfolds? Wouldn’t that solve the problem all the way around? And why are we not ASKING this question of the imams and demanding answers!

I know this question sounds racist but I’ll ask anyway: are Muslim men REALLY that unable to control their urges?… Professor Blather on April 11, 2007 at 10:14 AM

Yeah no kidding. Though I believe in most cases they are referring to being driven towards “impure thoughts.” I wonder what they think of those scientific studies that show that the male brain naturally thinks about sex every 8 seconds?

Obviously, the guy wearing the tablecloth he stole from an Italian restaurant on his head is going to have somebody else cut off that woman’s head. When it happens, the average Saudi IQ will probably drop 15 points.

I think the U.S. ought to immediately offer her asylum before she ends up dead. If ol’GW were smart, the U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia would be pulling up to her door right about now to personally make the offer from our President.

The Saudi’s can’t tolerate this kind of uppity attitude and she will end up tortured, dead and dumped somewhere unless somone intervenes. What an example and asset she could be for us in our war with fudamentalist Islam.

The mere fact that this is appearing on Arab television is encouraging. There was an article in the WSJ (subscription), part of a series about some modest liberalization going on in Saudi Arabia. The severe restrictions on women are a relatively new phenomenon resulting from the monarchy caving to the Wahhabists in the ’90s. It seems they’re starting to get fed up. Let’s hope.

Be careful what you wish for. They’re in their Reformation now. Look at the world 30 years ago versus now. There’s more sharia now, more Islamism now, more radicals now. And it’s all based on a literal reading of the Koran that wasn’t as prevalent a few decades ago.

The severe restrictions on women are a relatively new phenomenon resulting from the monarchy caving to the Wahhabists in the ’90s.

They started earlier than that. They were starting to loosen in the 70s, then the Shia had their “islamic revolution” in Iran in 1979. The Ayatollah Khomeini tried to speak for the Islamic world, and called out the Saudis for relaxing their restrictions. That was the end of that. Women were even allowed to go out by themselves at the time.

Brave and on the right path,but the fact that she still looks upon the Koran as a source of her “way” is proof that the brainwashing runs deep.Using it as a path to knowledge and enlightnement is a doomed journey IMHO. –
bbz123

Perhaps. But she later lamented the brainwashing method of memorization – brain killing uselessness of unquestioning memorization of koran. She demanded that schools and universities drop the memorization method and instead offer the ‘key’ to unlock the classical arabic script and open it to interpretation.

I know this question sounds racist but I’ll ask anyway: are Muslim men REALLY that unable to control their urges?

I only ask because its what THEY claim of themselves. Is it true? If a Muslim man actually sees a woman’s neck, he transforms into a rabid rapist? All of them?

They don’t believe they have to try. Under Islam, there is not really a parallel concept to our ideas of resisting sin and personal responsibility for your actions. The picture is that once the whole world is submitted, then all the temptations will be gone, and that will eradicate sin. They’re not actually expected to resist. It’s the community as a whole walking in submission that provides the way out of sin. Hence the zeal of the Taliban and others to enforce the edicts of Islam. Disappointment over any percieved shortcomings in their society can only be met by renewed attempts to follow the letter of Quranic law.

As has been noted, the fault in their minds really lies with the “tempter”, since they are helpless to resist. And women are one big walking temptation, hence the blanket thrown over them.

A compelling speaker (I know I could only understand her through subtitles, but calling it as I see it, the delivery transcended the language barrier) with a compelling argument and a distinct IQ advantage on her opponents.

(I will also admit to finding her attractive which, in itself, does not justify Italian-restaurant-table-cloth boy’s point. Any man who believes he can’t behave himself in front of an attractive woman is in serious need of long-term confinement of some kind.)

Is protection from the home town crowd an issue? Maybe, but maybe not . . . The Saudi royals might not be beyond taking a little bashing if they think it’s something they can point to on the world stage as proof of “allowing progressive thinking.”

But if is, here’s an idea for ABC, HOT AIR fans. Get her on the next flight here, put her on “The VIEW”, subtitles and all, and there are people who’ll wear out the home recorder making sure they don’t miss it.

Let’s see everyone’s favorite vampire bat win a debate with HER on a 7 second delay.

She’s making a good point about Saudi schools teaching memorization rather than teaching critical thinking skills. Isaac Schrödinger; a pro-USA Pakistani-born, ex-Muslim, refugee-claimant; makes the point explicitly in his story:http://conprotantor.blogspot.com/2006/10/isaacs-journey.html
Isaac says no students ask questions in Saudi schools. He makes rather interesting comparisons of Saudi and American schooling.